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What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 12:30:16 AM
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DrivenbyGod
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I was just reading something and it made me think about this, so thought I'd pose the question to you all. We here stories of things that have happened to people that have changed the course of their lives for good or bad.
Can you think of a single day in your life that altered the course of yours that you'd care to share? Do you see it in Gods plan for you now?
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 12:45:37 AM
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Well, the day I got the tick bite that caused me to get a severe case of lyme disease, which caused me to have to quit college, and then go home, and have years of ups and downs over health and job and family issues, I would say, was probably an EXTREMELY life changing day. Although, no one including myself realized I was sick as I was as soon as I was, so I have no idea which day the tick bite actually happened.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 12:51:32 AM
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On June 1, 2007, After nearly twenty years of marriage, my husband died. It has changed the course of my life, to say the very least.
Was it for good or bad............good of course.....How can I say that?
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Romans 8:28
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 12:31:44 PM
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OOOH good question.
Sunday, January 22, 2006 was a life-changing day for me.
I had been going through a truly bad time in my life.
I'd shut myself off from my friends, my family, and my Father.
I felt so awkward, so out of place, and isolated.
I didn't want anyone touching me, I didn't trust myself or anyone else.
I'd left my church because of a huge fiasco I didn't deserve.
I had been wounded from years of defeat, lies, and abuse from the enemy.
I was completely and totally overcome and paralyzed by fear...of everything and everyone.
On that day my quartet was singing in a little church in Valdosta, GA. It's a church of God and they would always pray with us after the service. We always expect great things there.
But this day was different. I was so unhappy and detached. I had no business ministering to others that day.
We were singing a song written by our alto when she was waiting on God to allow her to become pregnant. All I could do was cry out to God that I was tired of my isolation, my feeling of inadequacy, and fear. As we stood on stage I asked God to deliver me.
We finished out set, the preacher came up to preach and his message was on how we are to be a "peculiar" people, and not blend in with the crowd. How we are the children of God, and how I was His princess, worthy through Christ's sacrifice of love and blessing, and how He loves me unconditionally.
God spoke to my heart that day...my father left us on my parents' anniversary in 1995. It wasn't the 1st time he'd disappaered or didn't come home. There was always something taking him away from us...from me. I wasn't good enough for him.
I realized that because of that, something I thought I'd handled quite nicely all of my life, I felt like I wasn't good enough for anyone, even my heavenly Father, and so I'd distanced myself from Him, too! It was so liberating.
After the service, they gathered the quartet up to pray. At that point, I didn't want ANYONE to touch me, much less someone I barely new. We were all praying and the pastor put his big hand on my head and prayed, "Father, let this woman be delivered from fear." He had no idea what I was going through. Talk about amazing! My group knew, though, and we all about hit the floor!
Afterward, a lady approached me and said, "I don't usually get words from the Lord, but I got one specifically for you. Remember that you are your Daddy's little girl and that He loves you and wants the best for you." I could have hit the floor again. What an amazing gift I got that day. It took me a while to process....and clearly by seeing my posts, I'm not quite over the inadequacy thing. But OH what a difference it made in my life. God was truly showing off that day for me. And it was the pivot point that turned me from despair to joy again.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 4:39:21 PM
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Friday the 13th, November 1981.
I was a high school senior and had gone to the first game of the basketball season with my friends. Came home and sat down to watch "Fantasy Island" with my Mom. My older sister was at college in TN and my younger sister was baby sitting for Judge Dwyer up the street. My little brother was already in bed asleep.
At 11:00pm, my Mom went upstairs to wake up my Dad. He worked the midnight shift at the post office. She came running back down stairs and told me, "Go upstairs and try to wake up your father, I'm calling an ambulance."
I could go on in exceptional detail describing the rest of the night. Every event is burned into my memory, but I'll just say this.
The coroner said my father had been dead for more than an hour by the time my mother went upstairs to wake him.
The police had tracked down the Judge and explained to him what happened and he went home and sent my younger sister back. When I told her what had happened, she collapsed, physically and emotionally. I had to catch her so she didn't hit the floor.
At the age of seventeen, I was left as the only one coherent enough to deal with the coroner, the police and ambulance personel, in addition to my sister and mother. Mom insisted we let my brother sleep.
My father died at a time when a young man needs his father most.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 7:40:38 PM
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In Febuary of 2001 my old boss yelled at me in a flying rage! That was a turning point in my life.
Janauary 1995, through a series of events that unraveled I rededicated my life to Jesus.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/27/2008 7:46:32 PM
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In July, when I was 9......my little sister died.......that totally changed my life, because it totally changed my family.
Being so young I dont know how it changed, changed my life. How would i have been different if I hadnt of experienced such great tragedy and then 2 years later, my little sister was born, who brought such great joy into our lives. That also changed my life, because I became her little mother while mom was still dealing with her own feelings. Instead of being out with friends, i'd be out playing in the rain w/her......or taking her to the park......or.......whatever. I learned what uncontrollable grief can do to a person.......a family......
On a brighter note........i'll say 3 months.......i spent the summer in Peru in 2002.......doing mission work.......that totally changed my life......i saw grace like i had never seen it before.....i felt Gods love......and people's love like i had never felt it before.......i fell in love w/a country, and a people.....that has altered my life, becuz i saw Christianity, and love in action in the poorest of the poor.
Rosie.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/30/2008 2:36:39 PM
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Sept 20 1985. M went home. Ending the M phase of my life
Maybe that was the date they got married or he met to put the date his wife passed away.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/30/2008 2:38:18 PM
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Sept 20, 2005 is when she passed away.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 6/30/2008 6:12:20 PM
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ORIGINAL: OneOfHisJewels
Should that last date read 2005? I am not trying to be insensitive, I am just trying to clarify, because regarding the other dates, 1985 does not make sense.
Yes. I fixed it.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/1/2008 11:44:38 AM
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May I put a day which has not happened yet?
July 8 2008
My life will change that day.
How I don't know.
What I do know is that I will no longer be the same.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/1/2008 12:06:29 PM
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Feb 15, 1997. That's the day that my daughter was born and a lot of my self centredness disappeared. My whole world changed for the better.
June 7, 2003 THe death of my brother due to a drowning accident while saving his son. Because of it, I still feel very unsure about things, and I've become overprotective of my kid.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/3/2008 11:21:26 PM
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did you intentionally put down 7/8/08 because you have a small glimpse of what's in store for you that day? Just a glimpse but enough of one to know I will come out of the day changed.
I am going to battle. It will be the biggest battle of my life thus far........Victory is assured no matter the outcome.......but I know the fight will be hard.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/4/2008 12:52:47 AM
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March 20, 2000: Watched as "the one" slipped through my fingers. I have kicked myself for not saying something, and yet I just watched him go.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/4/2008 11:34:25 PM
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April 12, 2007 - The woman I loved broke my heart. After that, I never thought I could experience such lows. It completely turned my world upside-down!
Fast-forward 1.5 years...
August 4, 2008 - I start a new job and a new life in a new area. God is good!
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/5/2008 12:49:28 AM
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ju-ju
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ORIGINAL: Pauley464
Friday the 13th, November 1981.
I was a high school senior and had gone to the first game of the basketball season with my friends. Came home and sat down to watch "Fantasy Island" with my Mom. My older sister was at college in TN and my younger sister was baby sitting for Judge Dwyer up the street. My little brother was already in bed asleep.
At 11:00pm, my Mom went upstairs to wake up my Dad. He worked the midnight shift at the post office. She came running back down stairs and told me, "Go upstairs and try to wake up your father, I'm calling an ambulance."
I could go on in exceptional detail describing the rest of the night. Every event is burned into my memory, but I'll just say this.
The coroner said my father had been dead for more than an hour by the time my mother went upstairs to wake him.
The police had tracked down the Judge and explained to him what happened and he went home and sent my younger sister back. When I told her what had happened, she collapsed, physically and emotionally. I had to catch her so she didn't hit the floor.
At the age of seventeen, I was left as the only one coherent enough to deal with the coroner, the police and ambulance personel, in addition to my sister and mother. Mom insisted we let my brother sleep.
My father died at a time when a young man needs his father most.
Pauley, i just can't even imagine. i have no words but the few i am writing. how did you pull through? who was in your life at that time that you leaned on until you could get a grip on things?
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/5/2008 1:01:04 AM
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ju-ju
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ORIGINAL: RosieCotton
In July, when I was 9......my little sister died.......that totally changed my life, because it totally changed my family.
Being so young I don't know how it changed, changed my life. How would i have been different if I hadn't of experienced such great tragedy and then 2 years later, my little sister was born, who brought such great joy into our lives. That also changed my life, because I became her little mother while mom was still dealing with her own feelings. Instead of being out with friends, I'd be out playing in the rain w/her......or taking her to the park......or.......whatever. I learned what uncontrollable grief can do to a person.......a family......
On a brighter note........i'll say 3 months.......i spent the summer in Peru in 2002.......doing mission work.......that totally changed my life......i saw grace like i had never seen it before.....i felt Gods love......and people's love like i had never felt it before.......i fell in love w/a country, and a people.....that has altered my life, becuz i saw Christianity, and love in action in the poorest of the poor.
Rosie.
Rosie,
just like with Pauley, i can't imagine what that pain was like (in your first paragraph). i honestly just can't even imagine. i really don't have any words other than these few i am writing. how long was it before your mother and your family were able to recover? how long did you have to take on such grown up roles when you were a child yourself?
my mom died when i was 15, but she had been very sick already with cancer. so, in a sense, it wasn't a total shock when her day arrived. i did, however, struggle for a good while with guilt because i was going through my difficult and rebellious teenage years at the time. my mom and me, to put it delicately, did not get along, but that's a whole other story. anyway, i had gone to live with my grandfather, my dad's dad, because of all our strife. i just couldn't take anymore......and then about two months after i left for my grandfather's, i got a call from my mom's brother that she had passed away.
although that was a very hard time, i can't really say I've ever had anything traumatic happen like you or Pauley. it hurts my soul to hear about the grief that goes on around me.
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RE: What a day can bring... - 7/5/2008 9:53:00 AM
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The day that changed my life.
There's been many... the most recent (& I still have to let it go) is sometime in March of this year. When I met that lying, deceitful, conniving, treacherous, dishonest, fraudulent, legerdemainous man... who stole my heart (metaphorically) and refused to give it back, I had to practically snatch it back and am still nursing it back to health.
I had a hard time trusting men before, now it's doubly hard for me to trust them, because I'm always thinking that the image they present to me is a facade. How someone can have such an award-winning personality and lie without blinking, and then faced with the truth can still lie, with such a straight face is beyond me.
Why did God allow this man into my life is the question that I've been asking? But I've recently read:
'God doesn't always tell us why something is happening to us. Rather the question He loves to answer is,"What would you have me do here and now?"'
A tough question to ask, when humanly we want to weep, moan and stamp.
My day changer is minor, compared to Rosie's and Pauley's though. Through our experiences, I am sure we are strengthened to face other circumstances in life.
I still have to let go, but I'm getting there slowly but surely.
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